Re: Flatbrook Survey
[QUOTE=Drossi;523031]I agree (as I have for the last 30+ years) with how my license fees get spent. No issues here with the few special regs zones on the Pequest, SBR, BFB, or Musky. Or the wild trout regs. I think I fish general regs water 98% of the time I go out.
If you fish 99% of the time in general regulation areas, then I guess you catch stocked trout 99% of the time as well. I'm sure the number of holdover trout you catch in those general regulation waters is minimal at best. It's why you fish 1% of the time in wild trout or special regulation waters. Why is that?
The discussion has been about fishing in catch and release areas for trout that don't seem to survive despite what seem to be very suitable conditions. If the purpose of these areas is to ultimately allow more trout to "holdover" and the results show that the results are not fulfilled, then the program should be revisited and reevaluated. The streams that are now C&R are not and have not produced enough "wild trout" to be added to the wild trout stream list despite the stocking of those streams for over a century.
The streams have to be stocked or what fishing we know of today will be lost and forgotten and the fishermen with it.
Vendetta? Hardly! Scientific research? Definitely!
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